The Challenge With Chatbots Is That They Prevent Our Brain From Changing Reality

Both James and Joshua have received some criticism about their respective chatbots. It's the same kind of response that popped up when the Amazon Alexa feature was advertised over the summer, that Alexa could take on a deceased person's voice. The challenge with having a bot or an avatar is that it prevents our brain from updating, from understanding the new reality, where it already has this belief that the person is out there,. That bot is really reaffirming that belief rather than helping us to live in the new reality.